By Helen Montague Foster MD (ret), DLFAPA
If you knew me while I was in practice, you must be aware that I’m not all that silent. In fact, during unexpected schedule openings, I wrote novels plotted with fights against abusive insurance practices. Despite declining a book contract, complicated by a publisher’s refusal to modify terms requiring me to exclusively submit all my work to them before I gave anyone else a look, none of those novels has been published.
That publisher refused to exempt poems, medical articles, or even my president’s column for PSV from their contract. Now that I’m retired and not writing about managed care, I would like to announce the publication of my book, The Silent Hen, a WWII novel partly based on my parents’ service in the OSS, forerunner of the CIA.
It’s the story of a Sephardic Jewish girl sheltered by a Muslim couple in Yugoslavia and a Virginia woman, determined to serve her country, who come to know one another during difficult times in Egypt and in the USA. The Silent Hen is available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble and can be ordered through the publisher or at most independent bookshops.
